Twitter Basics & Extensions

slides from Jason Rhode's presentation on Twitter Basics & Extensions as part of the online session, "Using Twitter for Teaching, Learning and Professional Development in Higher Education"; complete
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slides from Jason Rhode's presentation on Twitter Basics & Extensions as part of the online session, "Using Twitter for Teaching, Learning and Professional Development in Higher Education"; complete online handout and archived session are available at http://bit.ly/twitterinedu

Transcript

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Twitter Basics

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Twitter Described“Part blog, part social networking site, and part cell phone/IM tool. It is designed to let users describe what they are doing or thinking at a given moment, in 140 characters or less” – Educause 7 Things You Should Know About Twitter2

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Trending Topics"most breaking" news stories from across the world; hottest emerging trends and topics of discussion on Twitter

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Platform IndependentTwitter messages, referred to as “tweets” can be sent and received from multiple platforms:Web-based Twitter accountSoftware client on any desktop or laptop Twitter app on smart phoneTwitter app on tabletSMS from any phoneThe same Twitter account can be accessed from any of the above platforms!

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Following OthersFollowing someone on Twitter means:a) you are subscribing to their Tweets as a Followerb) their updates will appear in your timelinec) that person has permission to send you private Tweets, called direct messages